so off it went to the united states into the blue, and i'm sure there are pieces that i never saw that we sent that i've still never seen. c-span: page 104: "someone once said that if we had daily satellites then as we do now, the war would have been over much sooner. perhaps that is true. we might have won it, too." did the satellite thing in the gulf make that war shorter? >> guest: could have. see, i firmly believe that we'll never be able to wage a war in this country -- if it becomes necessary, god forbid -- of any duration as long as the camera is there. i don't think that you can count on american will. not that i'm putting american will down. but you can't count on any will to see the horrors of war. world war ii was carried on basically invisibly, if you think about it. just think of the harrowing images of world war ii long after the war was over -- of course, it was a much bigger operation. i think if there had been total access in the gulf and we hadn't been winning so handily and we had had a lot of american corpses out there or a lot of american guys yelling for the medic